Let this serve as a reminder to everyone that if a site seems shady, it more than likely is. Also, try to purchase your game through only the officially recognized retail channels, okay?
That's a lesson that 1,341 gamers were taught this past week. Those gamers bought keys from a less than reputable site for Unknown Worlds' Natural Selection 2. The credit cards used to make the purchases issued a "charge-back" on the keys. As a result, Unknown Worlds never received payment for the game ($25) and were then charged a charge-back fee of $22 per transaction.
This resulted in Unknown Worlds being screwed out of around $30,000, both from the loss of those sales and from the charge-back fees adding up across all of those fraudulent purchases. That's not to mention that the people who bought the keys from the less than reputable site are now not only out of a game, they're also out of the money they spent to get the key.
See, the site that the users purchased the game keys from more than likely used stolen credit cards to make the purchase and then resell those keys to the end users. The end users having obviously bought the game with legitimate credit cards, thinking they were getting a good deal. Whomever actually owned the stolen cards probably found out it was stolen and got the legal ball rolling from there.
Unknown Worlds urges all of those who had their games revoked to contact the site they purchased the game from to request a full refund.
At present, the only place to legitimately buy Natural Selection 2 is from Steam or through the Natural Selection 2 website.
(via Unknown Worlds)
That's a lesson that 1,341 gamers were taught this past week. Those gamers bought keys from a less than reputable site for Unknown Worlds' Natural Selection 2. The credit cards used to make the purchases issued a "charge-back" on the keys. As a result, Unknown Worlds never received payment for the game ($25) and were then charged a charge-back fee of $22 per transaction.
This resulted in Unknown Worlds being screwed out of around $30,000, both from the loss of those sales and from the charge-back fees adding up across all of those fraudulent purchases. That's not to mention that the people who bought the keys from the less than reputable site are now not only out of a game, they're also out of the money they spent to get the key.
See, the site that the users purchased the game keys from more than likely used stolen credit cards to make the purchase and then resell those keys to the end users. The end users having obviously bought the game with legitimate credit cards, thinking they were getting a good deal. Whomever actually owned the stolen cards probably found out it was stolen and got the legal ball rolling from there.
Unknown Worlds urges all of those who had their games revoked to contact the site they purchased the game from to request a full refund.
At present, the only place to legitimately buy Natural Selection 2 is from Steam or through the Natural Selection 2 website.
(via Unknown Worlds)
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